Productivity guru Merlin Mann has an interesting post over at 43 Folders regarding file naming conventions best practices. Mann posts a detailed system used by a video crew for naming their files to retain a clean and readable structure while avoiding filenames like "thing-2 finalFinal! v3 (with new changes) 05b.psd".

In addition to the post's interesting take, the comments have some great suggestions for file naming, as well. I've always struggled with sticking to conventions when versioning files (I stick to Subversion for file versioning whenever I can, but that's not always possible), so I'd love to hear what file naming conventions our readers use to keep track of their files. Give us your system in the comments.